血管流量改变是肝脏病理的一个主要模式,在患者与正管肺移植:一个追溯观察性研究研究

Kasey J McCollum1, Bethany Freeland LeClair1, Wei Chen1

  • 1Department of Pathology, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Histopathology
|January 20, 2025
PubMed
概括

这项研究揭示了正管肺移植 (OLT) 后肝脏的关键变化,包括血管问题和肥胖症,但值得注意的是,没有晚期纤维化. 这有助于监测OLT患者.

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